PROGRAM – GLO-Bonn-2026: Jobmarket Sessions Online; Dec. 3-4

December 3-4, 2026. Jobmarket Sessions online only, all CET Berlin
Draft Nov. 9, 2026; 11:00 am CET.

Online participation open for all GLO-Bonn-2026 participants.
Zoom LINK will be provided in time.

NOTE: PRELIMINARY !!!
(*O = confirmed but not finally registered)
NOTE: Sessions will take place in time-zones around the globe in line with local fit.

NOTE:
– For detailed information about the concept of the event see CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS.

– In-person sessions program for November 30 – December 2, see LINK.
– Online sessions program for December 3-4, see LINK

PROGRAM

December 3, 2026


03:30 – 05:30 CET

Session 1: Gender, Norms, and Women in the Labor Market – Asia

Thursday, December 3, 2026 · CET 03:30–05:30 · IST 08:00–10:00 · CST 10:30–12:30 · EST 21:30–23:30 (Dec 2)

1. Steny Rapheal (Jawaharlal Nehru University, stenyrapheal@gmail.com), When Education Engenders and Endangers Wellbeing: How Educated Leaders Shape Women’s Lives in India?, https://sites.google.com/view/steny-rapheal/about?authuser=0

2. Noyel Sebastian (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, NOYELANIYARA@GMAIL.COM), No Room of One’s Own: Inherited Norms and Women’s Lifetime Labor Market Non-Participation, https://noyelsebastian.github.io/publications/

3. Preeti Jaiswal (IIT Bombay, pj773384@gmail.com), Mandated Maternity Leave and Labour Substitution: Firm-Level Evidence from India, https://sites.google.com/view/preeti-jaiswal/about?authuser=0

4. Sarvnipun Kaur (Plaksha University, sarvnipun.kaur@plaksha.edu.in), Unintended Impact of Gender-equal Pay: Evidence from Wimbledon, https://sarvnipun.github.io/

5. Soumyaranjan Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, soumyaranjanmk@gmail.com), Does Educational Mismatch Penalise Women Less? Evidence from India’s Labour Market

6. Shreya Malhotra (Fairfield University, shreyamalhotra_13@outlook.com), Do prenups reduce Conspicuous Consumption during mate-selection process? A Game-Theoretic Analysis with Heterogeneous Types

Discussant:

  • Xinyang Li, xinyang.li3@student.uq.edu.au
  • Ammazia Hanif, Ammaziahanif409@gmail.com
  • SAPAN KUMAR PRADHAN, sapanmpradhan@gmail.com
  • Forum Shah, forumeconomist@gmail.com
  • Monika Narayan, monikanrn@gmail.com
  • Rohit Joseph, rohit.joseph_phd21@ashoka.edu.in


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06:00 – 08:00 CET

Session 2: Migration, Mobility, and Local Labor Markets – Asia

Thursday, December 3, 2026 · CET 06:00–08:00 · IST 10:30–12:30 · CST 13:00–15:00 · EST 00:00–02:00

1. Vijay Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, vkpatel066@gmail.com), Regional heterogeneity in skill-based migration: evidence from selected industrial regions of India

2. Xueqing Geng (Singapore Management University, xqgeng@smu.edu.sg), The Product-Market Effects of Labor-Market Information: Evidence from Peer Firms’ Earnings Announcements, https://sites.google.com/view/gengxueqing?pli=1&authuser=0

3. Rida Hameed (American University, rh4304a@american.edu), Clearing the Air: How Pollution Shapes Labor Supply in Bangladesh, https://ridahameed13.github.io

4. Krishna Sharma (Stanford University, ksharma3@stanford.edu), Mama, I’m Coming Home: Brain Gain through Brain Circulation in India, krishna-sharma.com

5. Ahsan Ahmed (Guru Nanak Dev University, aahsanwani786@gmail.com), Labour Migration and Livelihood Transformation: Evidence from Migrant Workers in Srinagar

6. Anran Liu (University of California, Davis, anrliu@ucdavis.edu), Poor People or Poor Places? Evidence from China’s Poverty Alleviation Relocation

Discussant:

  • Steny Rapheal, stenyrapheal@gmail.com
  • Noyel Sebastian, NOYELANIYARA@GMAIL.COM
  • Preeti Jaiswal, pj773384@gmail.com
  • Sarvnipun Kaur, sarvnipun.kaur@plaksha.edu.in
  • Soumyaranjan Mukherjee, soumyaranjanmk@gmail.com
  • Shreya Malhotra, shreyamalhotra_13@outlook.com


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08:30 – 10:30 CET

Session 3: Health, Environmental Shocks, and Well-being in South Asia – Asia

Thursday, December 3, 2026 · CET 08:30–10:30 · IST 13:00–15:00 · CST 15:30–17:30 · EST 02:30–04:30

1. Xinyang Li (School of Economics, The University of Queensland, xinyang.li3@student.uq.edu.au), Spousal Chronic Disease and Financial Risk Attitudes: A Dimension-Reduced Doubly Robust Difference-in-Differences Approach

2. Ammazia Hanif (Hitotsubashi University, Ammaziahanif409@gmail.com), Health, Employment, and Occupational Sorting: Gendered Labor Market Effects of Anemia in India, https://amazia23.github.io/Amazia

3. SAPAN KUMAR PRADHAN (JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, INDIA, sapanmpradhan@gmail.com), The Womb under Heat: Temperature Shocks, Maternal Care, and Birth Weight in India

4. Forum Shah (Presidency University, Kolkata, India, forumeconomist@gmail.com), Mental health and earnings inequality in India: Evidence from the Periodic Labour Force Survey, https://orcid.org/0009-0004-9188-2914

5. Monika Narayan (Jawaharlal Nehru University, monikanrn@gmail.com), Can Preference for Sons Lead to Health Penalty for Daughters? Evidence from Anaemia Among Young Girls in India

6. Rohit Joseph (Ashoka University, India, rohit.joseph_phd21@ashoka.edu.in), The Afterlives of Partition: Mass Violence, Forced Displacement, and Women’s Status in India

Discussant:

  • Vijay Kumar, vkpatel066@gmail.com
  • Xueqing Geng, xqgeng@smu.edu.sg
  • Rida Hameed, rh4304a@american.edu
  • Krishna Sharma, ksharma3@stanford.edu
  • Ahsan Ahmed, aahsanwani786@gmail.com
  • Anran Liu, anrliu@kaeriksson

END OF DAY I — DECEMBER 3, 2026

December 4, 2026

08:30 – 10:30 CET

Session 4: Culture, Family, and Human Capital Formation – Europe

Friday, December 4, 2026 · CET 08:30–10:30 · IST 13:00–15:00 · CST 15:30–17:30 · EST 02:30–04:30

1. Qianyan Xu (Lund University, qianyan.xu@nek.lu.se), Intergenerational Effects of Initial Labor Market Conditions on Human Capital Accumulation., https://sites.google.com/view/qianyanxu/

2. Merve Demirel (IIES, Stockholm University, merve.demirel@iies.su.se), Migration Costs and Higher Education: Experimental Evidence from India, www.demirelmerve.com

3. Fernanda Da Silva (Southern Methodist University, fdasilva@smu.edu), Mobile Internet and the Composition of Parental Time, https://fernanda-econ.github.io/

4. Prashant Poddar (University of Oxford, prashant.poddar@nuffield.ox.ac.uk), For the love of God? Proselytization, Religious Restrictions and Social Conflicts in India., https://sites.google.com/view/prashantpoddar

5. Mengwei Lin (University of Barcelona & Barcelona Institute of Economics (IEB), mengwei.lin@ub.edu), Museums Around: Cultural Infrastructure and Educational Outcomes, https://lin-mengwei.github.io

6. Peter Holmström (Lund University, peter.holmstrom@ekh.lu.se), Beyond the Child Penalty: The Partnered-Parent Penalty in Promotion to Full Professor

Discussant:

  • Jessica Mancuso, jessica.mancuso@carloalberto.org
  • Sam Kang, samueljong.kang@unisg.ch
  • Wei Zheng, vivianzhengwei2013@gmail.com
  • Fabio Angei, fabio.angei@unica.it
  • Giulia Montresor, giulia.montresor@univr.it
  • Eduard van der Merwe, e.vdmerwe@rice.edu


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11:00 – 13:00 CET

Session 5: Technology, Shocks, and Labor Market Adjustment – Europe

Friday, December 4, 2026 · CET 11:00–13:00 · IST 15:30–17:30 · CST 18:00–20:00 · EST 05:00–07:00

1. Cagri Yuksel (Doctoral Researcher; Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA); Lecturer at UCL; Teaching Fellow at QMUL & City St George’s, c.yuksel@qmul.ac.uk), Are Entry-Level Jobs Disappearing and Are Young Workers Paying the Price? UK Evidence from AI Exposure after ChatGPT., https://www.qmul.ac.uk/business-school/staff/phd/profiles/cagri-yuksel.html

2. Ruben Piazzesi (University of Pennsylvania, pruben@sas.upenn.edu), The Productivity Effects of Aging: Skill Composition and Technology Adoption, https://rubenpiazzesi.com/

3. Rabbia Tariq (University of Exeter, rt548@exeter.ac.uk), The Withholding Edge: Competition and the Diffusion of Labour Market Information, https://rabtar.github.io/

4. Vinzenz Peters (Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn, peters@ifm-bonn.org), Short-Term Leverage and the Real Effects of Floods: Evidence from European SMEs, https://www.vinzenzpeters.com/

5. Mushegh Tovmasyan (University Paris-Saclay, mushegh.tovmasyan@universite-paris-saclay.fr), Occupational Routineness and Migration response to Mass Layoffs, https://sites.google.com/view/musheghtovmasyan/bio

6. Ellestina Jumbe (University of Rome Tor Vergata, ellestina.jumbe@students.uniroma2.eu), Banned from working: Female labour exclusion and welfare loss in Afghanistan., https://sites.google.com/view/ellestinajumbe

Discussant:

  • Qianyan Xu, qianyan.xu@nek.lu.se
  • Merve Demirel, merve.demirel@iies.su.se
  • Fernanda Da Silva, fdasilva@smu.edu
  • Prashant Poddar, prashant.poddar@nuffield.ox.ac.uk
  • Mengwei Lin, mengwei.lin@ub.edu
  • Peter Holmström, peter.holmstrom@ekh.lu.se


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14:00 – 16:00 CET

Session 6: Health, Safety, and the Effects of Public Policy – Europe

Friday, December 4, 2026 · CET 14:00–16:00 · IST 18:30–20:30 · CST 21:00–23:00 · EST 08:00–10:00

1. Jessica Mancuso (University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto, jessica.mancuso@carloalberto.org), When Free Healthcare Meets Gender Norms: the Impact of Public Healthcare on Sex Selection, https://www.jessicamancuso.com/

2. Sam Kang (University of St. Gallen, GLO, samueljong.kang@unisg.ch), Prison, Probation, and the Community, https://sites.google.com/view/samuelkang/home

3. Wei Zheng (University of Barcelona, vivianzhengwei2013@gmail.com), The Impact of the Dependent Coverage Mandate on Intimate Partner Violence, https://weizhengecon.wixsite.com/website

4. Fabio Angei (Università degli Studi di Cagliari, fabio.angei@unica.it), On the Record: What Drives Workplace Injury Reporting?, https://fabioangei.it/

5. Giulia Montresor (University of Verona, giulia.montresor@univr.it), When Policy Meets Weather: Heat Alerts and Workplace Safety, https://sites.google.com/view/giulia-montresor

6. Eduard van der Merwe (Rice University, e.vdmerwe@rice.edu), Preaching Against the Choir: Religious Leaders and Reproductive Norms in Kenya, https://eduardvandermerwe.com

Discussant:

  • Cagri Yuksel, c.yuksel@qmul.ac.uk
  • Ruben Piazzesi, pruben@sas.upenn.edu
  • Rabbia Tariq, rt548@exeter.ac.uk
  • Vinzenz Peters, peters@ifm-bonn.org
  • Mushegh Tovmasyan, mushegh.tovmasyan@universite-paris-saclay.fr
  • Ellestina Jumbe, ellestina.jumbe@students.uniroma2.eu


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16:30 – 18:30 CET

Session 7: Entrepreneurship, Wages, and Pay Regulation – North America

Friday, December 4, 2026 · CET 16:30–18:30 · IST 21:00–23:00 · CST 23:30–01:30 (Dec 5) · EST 10:30–12:30

1. Sujin Lee (The Ohio State University, lee.9962@osu.edu), Beyond the Jack-of-All-Trades Hypothesis: The Importance of Business and Specialized Skills for Self-Employment Entry and Success, https://sujinhome.github.io/

2. Rouzhi Liang (Southern Methodist University, rouzhil@smu.edu), Bequests, Fertility, and Barriers to Entrepreneurship: The Intergenerational Transmission of Economic Inequality, https://rouzl.github.io/

3. Kamala Guluzade (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics, Kansas State University, kguluzade@ksu.edu), Macroeconomic Determinants of Business Formation in the U.S.: An ARDL Approach, https://www.kamalaguluzade.com/home

4. Zeliha Begum Tunc (University of California, Riverside, ztunc001@ucr.edu), The Effect of Salary History Bans on Labor Market Reattachment, https://sites.google.com/view/zelihabegumtunc

5. Haoran Wang (The Ohio State University, wang.15063@osu.edu), The Effects of Colorado’s Pay Transparency Law on Older Workers, https://hwang853.github.io/

6. Abiodun Musbaudeen (Binghamton University, amusbau1@binghamton.edu), Digitalization, Factor-Biased Productivity and Market Power, https://abiodunmusbaudeen.com/

Discussant:

  • Pratistha Adhikari, padhikari36@gatech.edu
  • Jisub Shin, jisubs@smu.edu
  • Zhuoyu Qiu, zqiu039@ucr.edu
  • Deborah Gaisie, dgaisie1@gsu.edu
  • Mahesh Dhole, mahesh.dhole@siu.edu
  • Vrinda Kapoor, vk289@cornell.edu


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19:00 – 21:00 CET

Session 8: Marriage Markets, Development, and Rural Economies – North America

Friday, December 4, 2026 · CET 19:00–21:00 · IST 23:30–01:30 (Dec 5) · CST 02:00–04:00 (Dec 5) · EST 13:00–15:00

1. AAKRITI SARASWAT (Fordham University, asaraswat1@fordham.edu), Paving the Path to Safety: Rural Roads and Intimate Partner Violence in India, https://aakritisaraswat.github.io

2. Arigna Guha (Binghamton University, aguha2@binghamton.edu), Cross-sibling Linkages in the Indian Marriage Market, https://arignaguha.com/

3. Deepak Kumar (Virginia Tech, deepak21@vt.edu), From Strangers to Neighbors: Does Refugee-Host Integration Improve Local Economic Development?, https://deepakkumar0302.github.io/

4. Priyanka Pimple (University of Arkansas, ppimple@uark.edu), Dams and Rural Labor Markets in India, https://priyankapimpley.github.io/

5. Yufeng Shi (Boston College, yufeng.shi@bc.edu), One Child Policy and Marriage Market Outcomes, https://sites.google.com/bc.edu/yufengshi/home

6. Vrinda Kapoor (Cornell University, vk289@cornell.edu), Employer Quality and Information Frictions in Informal Labor Markets, vrindakapoor.github.io

Discussant:

  • Sujin Lee, lee.9962@osu.edu
  • Rouzhi Liang, rouzhil@smu.edu
  • Kamala Guluzade, kguluzade@ksu.edu
  • Zeliha Begum Tunc, ztunc001@ucr.edu
  • Haoran Wang, wang.15063@osu.edu
  • Abiodun Musbaudeen, amusbau1@binghamton.edu


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21:30 – 23:30 CET

Session 9: Education, Human Capital, and Labor Market Policy – North America

Friday, December 4, 2026 · CET 21:30–23:30 · IST 02:00–04:00 (Dec 5) · CST 04:30–06:30 (Dec 5) · EST 15:30–17:30 · Chair: Nazanin

1. Pratistha Adhikari (Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology, padhikari36@gatech.edu), The Impact of Inheritance Rights Reform on Women’s Education, www.pratisthaadhikari.com

2. Jisub Shin (Southern Methodist University, jisubs@smu.edu), Spatial Choices, Fertility Decisions, and Educational Competition: Insights from Localizing Admission Competition, https://jisub-shin.github.io

3. Zhuoyu Qiu (University of California, Riverside, zqiu039@ucr.edu), Gender Peer Effects and Women’s Academic Performance in Mathematics: Evidence from a U.S. University, https://r-qiu.github.io/

4. Deborah Gaisie (Georgia State University, dgaisie1@gsu.edu), How College Mergers Impact the Higher Education Labor Market, https://www.dgaisie.com/

5. Mahesh Dhole (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, mahesh.dhole@siu.edu), Does a High Minimum Wage Insulate or Expose Workers to the Effects of Technological Change? Evidence from U.S. States, https://maheshdhole11.github.io

6. Brice Romuald Gueyap Kounga (University of Western Ontario, bgueyapk@uwo.ca), Semiparametric Dynamic Logit Model with Endogenous Networks, https://bricegueyap.github.io/

Discussant:

  • AAKRITI SARASWAT, asaraswat1@fordham.edu
  • Arigna Guha, aguha2@binghamton.edu
  • Deepak Kumar, deepak21@vt.edu
  • Priyanka Pimple, ppimple@uark.edu
  • Brice Romuald Gueyap Kounga, bgueyapk@uwo.ca
  • Yufeng Shi, yufeng.shi@bc.edu

END OF GLO JOBMARKET SESSIONS

Organizing Committee:

Leena Bhattacharya (Tilburg University/WageIndicator Foundation), Brianna Felegi (Virginia Tech), Shihe Fu (Wuhan University), Yang Jiao (Texas A&M University – Texarkana), Tyler Ransom (University of Oklahoma), Nazanin Sedaghatkish (Sam Houston State University), Fan Wang (University of Houston), and Bingxiao Wu (Rutgers University).
Le Wang (Chair) Virginia Tech